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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9780780026056
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780026055
Label: Criterion
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Criterion
MPN: PMIDHOP020D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 20, 2002
Running Time: 106 minutes
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1980
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Miles kendig knows too much. One of the cias top operatives he suddenly finds himself with a desk job. Unwilling to go quietly kendig puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligance agency in the world. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 08/20/2002 Starring: Walter Matthau Ned Beatty Run time: 105 minutes Director: Ronald Neame
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Walter Matthau is in peak form in Hopscotch, a featherweight spy-game comedy in which he plays a CIA agent who's way smarter than his dimwitted superiors. That's the fantasy part--this amusing cat-and-mouse game is so lopsided that you can't take it seriously. The movie's charm is derived from the sardonic pleasure with which Matthau makes his pursuers look like idiots, after they've targeted him for "termination" for publishing a tell-all memoir about his tenure in "the Company." He's no stool pigeon, however; it's his boss (played with blustery thick-headedness by the great Ned Beatty) who's abusing his power, so Matthau recruits an old lover (Glenda Jackson) to join him in a globetrotting game of clandestine cleverness. Under Ronald Neame's too-casual direction, this is a not-so-wild goose chase, but Matthau and Jackson (reuniting after they had fun making the 1978 comedy House Calls) have an easygoing chemistry that's nicely balanced with Matthau's cantankerous shenanigans. --Jeff Shannon
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This is one of my favorite movies and for some unknown reason hasn't been available on TCM, FMC or AMC. It was great to find it available and while it was pricey it was still worth it. This is a fast paced movie with great wit, cleverness and one of the funniest scenes I've seen in movies. All this without any violence to people. The DVD quality is fine.
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Miles (Matthau's character) was put on a desk job after years in the field. Rather than go quietly into the night, he decides to get even. He decides to get even by writing a tell-all expose of his boss Ned Beatty. Sam Waterson plays Miles protege and reluctant pursuer. The plot is not perfect and the direction is a little sloppy. However, everybody is having so much fun, it doesn't matter. Matthau and Glenda Jackson are at their witty best. The great Ned Beatty is perfect as the boss. He is not ... Read More
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From my first viewing of Hopscotch when it was in theaters, I have never failed to find something new, always enjoyable. But beyond its perennial power to entertain, the interplay between Matthau and Jackson, the scenery, the Mozart, the Waterston and Lom, there's a spirit to this film which makes it one of my top five, maybe my top two. I've introduced family and friends to it over the years, and made lifetime fans of virtually all of them, most with their own copies of the DVD. Most can quote ... Read More
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This is the movie that really made me like Walter Matthau growing up. If you can suspend disbelief and enjoy a movie where a smart person can get fed up and have a little fun at his exemployers expense, then you should enjoy this one.
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My sister loved Hopscotch with Walter Matthau and Sam Waterston. Her favorite scene in the movie was near the end when the plane crashes and all are standing on the cliff watching. Someone says well He's dead. Sam Waterston in the significant ending scene says, "The son-of-a b. better stay dead".
I bought the VHS for my sister on her birthday. That entire favorite part was cut out of the video. I know she was disappointed. Movies should never be cut. The scenes are there to keep the ... Read More
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